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Exploring Humans' Space

Jacques Lévy

Explore how geography, cartography, urbanization and spatial justice play a role in shaping the notion of human space. An introduction to geographicity proposed by Chôros on edX platform ...

2015

All About Space (Vol. 1) - The Invention of Space

Dieter Dietz, Daniel Zamarbide Elizondo

A sparkling intellectual experiment about creating space and the initial volume of a new four-part series from EPFL's School of Architecture. ...

Park Books2015

Thinking Places

Jacques Lévy

Nine films to place thought. Thinking Places is a series of nine scientific films, made with the following principle: coupling, through the language of cinema, a speech given by a scientist that works on inhabited space and a place this scientist has chose ...

Chôros, EPFL2015

Renormalized solutions to the continuity equation with an integrable damping term

Maria Colombo

We consider the continuity equation with a nonsmooth vector field and a damping term. In their fundamental paper, DiPerna and Lions (Invent Math 98:511-547, 1989) proved that, when the damping term is bounded in space and time, the equation is well posed i ...

2015

The wheelchair as a full-body tool extending the peripersonal space

Olaf Blanke, Andrea Serino, Jean-Paul Noel, Elisa Canzoneri

Dedicated multisensory mechanisms in the brain represent peripersonal space (PPS), a limited portion of space immediately surrounding the body. Previous studies have illustrated the malleability of PPS representation through hand-object interaction, showin ...

Frontiers Research Foundation2015

Peripersonal space as the space of the bodily self

Olaf Blanke, Andrea Serino, Jean-Paul Noel, Christian Pfeiffer

Bodily self-consciousness (BSC) refers to experience of one's self as located within an owned body (self-identification) and as occupying a specific location in space (self-location). BSC can be altered through multisensory stimulation, as in the Full Body ...

Elsevier2015

Perceptual, comfort and health aspects of natural lighting in a space

Marilyne Andersen

This presentation will explore the multifaceted nature of daylight performance in architectural spaces by discussing ongoing research regarding the dynamics of daylighting performance considering three interpretations of “well-being” in a space: as a human ...

2015

Rethinking Urban Space in a World Without Cars

Matthew Skjonsberg, Farzaneh Bahrami

The Confluence Collective in partnership with the Municipal Library of Lyon organizes moments of discussion and debate where young researchers present, confront and criticize their work in social sciences, humanities and arts. The reduction in individual m ...

2015

Incorporation of skilled migrants in a host country: insights from the study of skilled Indians in Switzerland

Gabriela Tejada Guerrero, Metka Hercog

It is commonly accepted that mobility of people, especially of highly-skilled workers, has acquired a much more temporary character. Such fluid patterns of mobility call to attention the need to observe in what way highly-skilled migrants at present relate ...

International Migration and Diaspora Studies Project, JNU2014

Unpleasant Design. Designing Out Unwanted Behaviour

Selena Savic, Gordan Savicic

Unpleasant Design is an aggregation of techniques and strategies in urban design where social control is an inherent property of objects and places. Unpleasant Design research recognizes the growing desire for controlled environments amongst different auth ...

2014